Windows: IE 0-day vulnerability (CVE-2014-1776) -- Patch Now

SUMMARY:

Windows: IE 0-day vulnerability (CVE-2014-1776) -- Patch Now

POSTED ON:

05/01/2014

REPORTER:

Jocelyn E Kasamoto (jocelyn)

START TIME:

May 01 12:42 PM

END TIME:

May 30 12:42 PM

DESCRIPTION:

Microsoft has released a special update for Internet Explorer (IE) zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2014-1776) -- even for Windows XP! Windows XP fell out of support on April 8, 2014 and shouldn't have received a patch. This underscores the importance of the patch and the priority to patch as soon as possible.

Please run Windows Update ASAP for clients and servers. A restart may be required.

The security update will be listed as "Security Update for Internet Explorer (6-11) on Windows (XP/Vista/Win7/Win8/8.1) (KB2964358)".

The critical 0-day vulnerability was reported at http://www.hawaii.edu/technews/notice.php?id=270213